Watch-chain holder



June 5, 1923. 1,457,716

G. STIEGLER WATCH CHAIN HOLDER Filed Dec. 1, 1922 Patented June 5, 1923.V

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WATCH-CHAIN nonnna.

Application filed December 1, 1922,, Serial No. 604,290.

larly adapted for use with trouser belts. I Most men now wear belts tohold up their trousers in the summer time, and no vest, and asa result,have no placeto attach their watch chainIThis" results in danger of thewatch falling out of the pocket and onto the ground, and also makes itfairly easy for a pickpocket to remove the watchwithout cutting thechain. I

It is. the object of myinvention to pro- .vide a simple device, whichmay be made part of the belt'or attached to the belt or trousers hem orelsewhere, which will act.

to hold the watch chain cross bar firmly against dislodgment.

Among other things I prefer to form" the bar edge'wise through thecentral aperture,

and thus to dislodge the bar will require a' motion which cannot beaccomplished with the clothingimpeding the withdrawal action. Otherforms may, however, be adapted to the same end, although not soeffectively, and I show my preferred form as illustrative of theprinciples involved.

I thus accomplish my object by that certain construction and arrangementof parts to be hereinaftermore specifically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a belt showing my device in the form ofajgrommet in the belt.

Figure 2 is a perspective brokenawayto show a central vertical sectiontaken through a belt showing the device in the same relation thereto asin Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a perspective view ofthe device used with a gripping devicesFigure 4 1s a side elevation of-thevdevice I shown in'Figure 3.

A'watch chain is shown in Figure 1' in dotted linesat 1, withthecrossbar-B also dotted in. The device in'FigureI'isshOWn as mountedin-abelt The belt is pierced with an oval-shaped hole 'into which isplaced an oval-shaped grommet having the curved outer rim 4- and" theflang 5, which is thrustthrough the hole and forced "out laterally toengage theinner as shown in Figure 2'; i

"At two points intermediate theends of the grommet are formed, as partof the single face olf 'thezbelt I piece, the curved arms-or cross bars6, 6. I These two arms leave a central spacei7 -be-' They are elevated lat the center so 1 as ito fl lie outside of the plane of the grommet.

A watch chain cross bar in such "adevice is thrust endwise through thecentral'hole 7 until it has entirely passed throughthe hole. One end ofthe chain bar is thenbrought out through one of the apertures 8 andpulled laterally far enough for'the other end to slip out through theother aperture 8. The cha in is then pulled tight and this draws thecross bar into a centered position as shown in the dotted lines ofFigural.

The bar cannot be dislodgedfrom this position without/reversingthe stepsabove described, so that without the co-operation of the wearer itwillbe to get the :watch chain outof the grommet device without cuttingor breakingit.

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next to impossible -The position of the grommet in the belt aperturesleft are the same: as in the first I two views.

In this'instance, however, I have secured to the upperjedgeofthe portion10 a clip having an arm 12 and return bent portion 13- and a resilientcurved tongue "-14 ofspring metal set inside of the curve of the hook..

An L -shaped member hinged at 15 and-having an arm 16 and a short arm 17acts, when laid fiat with the outer portion of the hook, to thrustinwardly the tongue 14, thereby grasping the face of a belt, trouserswaistband or other article of clothing.

As this form of clip is a well known article of commerce, and not of myinvention, I do not believe that further detailed. description isrequired of it. Any form of device for attaching the oval-shaped memberwill serve so long as it leaves it free enough to permit the watch chaincross bar to be set in place and removed in the man ner described.

It will be noted that both devices are of extreme simplicity, and yetdue to the fact that they require a certain method of insertion andremoval of the cross bar, act, in co-operation with the body and othergarments of the wearer, to prevent dislodgment of the cross bar, once itis mounted, since it i must be turned endwise to be withdrawn,

which can only be done when the belt is loose from the body or theclothing is loose behind the clipped-on structure. 4 'Having thusdescribed several structures embodying the features of my invention,what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the character described, the combination with atrousers belt or the like, same having a hole formed therein ofsufiicient size to ermit the insertion of the cross bar of a watchchain, of a grommet surrounding and reinforcingsaid hole, said grommethaving a pair of interspaced ele vated arms extending across theaperture therein, for the purpose described.

2. A device for securing the cross bar of a watch chain, comprising aplate having a rim surrounding an opening, and a pair of interspacedarms extending across said opening from the rim, said arms beingelevated above the plate sufliciently to permit such cross bar to lie onthe face of the plate and beneath the two arms, with the chain extendingout between the bars.

3. A device for securing the cross bar of a watch chain, comprising aplate having a rim surrounding an opening, and a pair of interspac'edarms extending across said opening from the rim, said arms beingeleva'ted above the plate sufliciently to permit such cross bar to lieon the face of the plate and beneath the two arms, with the chainextending out between the bars, and means for mounting said device on agarment in such a position as to be backed up when in use on the wearerso as to prevent endwise movement of the cross bar through the openingbetween the cross arms.

GEORGE STIEGLER.

